50 Incredible Stop Motion Ideas And Videos

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Stop motion animation is one of the hottest areas of film-making today. Stop motion is an animation art through which one can spring life in inanimate things and do the unnatural.

It works by shooting a single frame of an object, then moving the object slightly, and then shooting another frame.

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When the film runs continuously in a film projector, or other video playback system, the illusion of fluid motion is created and the objects appear to move by themselves. This is similar to the animation of cartoons, but using real objects instead of drawings.

Well, how can you make use of stop motion in web design? Some design agencies integrate stop motion in their showreels, some may use it to present a product or a service. The main advantage of the technique is that it really looks different, unusual and therefore memorable. In technical terms, stop motion consists of many forms according to techniques used to create, animate and film it - pixilation, cutout animation, time-lapse, clay animation and many more. Stop motion animation is time-consuming, repetitive process which requires patience.

Below we present over 50 amazing examples of stop motion videos, a tribute to hard work of animators, artists and creative folks.

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Stop Motion Videos

Fat City Reprise - Long Gone video by Cesar Kuriyama Music video was created entirely from 45,000 Photographs taken by a Nikon D200 DSLR. This Photographs were stitched together to create the illusion of video.
Abstract thoughts video by Darryn ray
A short love story video by Carlos Lascano
Chess clay stop motion video by ricx78
Shaving by Hand video by theyear1988
7x7x7 cube assembly video by qythium
Lego Millenium Falcon video by technomonkeymedia
Tony vs Paul video by Tetriscide
Commercial - Swiss Made video by filmbaeckerei
Western Spaghetti video by PES
Livin La Vida Sconsin video by mysteryd8
Music Condenser video by Promesto
Guns N Roses video by ClayMationMCO
Process Enacted video by Jordan C Greenhalgh
Commercial - xBox video by retiredbutBACK
Ad - Hands video by Rocketman1964
Light-Paint Piano Player video by Ryan Cashman
Ad- Best Beer video by videos0wnit
Food Fight video by touristpictures
Spinning Rocks video by lunalady
Pancakes video by GiR2007
MUTO a wall-painting video by blu
Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection video by Mabona origami
Revamped Graphic Equalizer video by Marcelo Costa

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